Heartleaf Books

JOSIE'S TOP 3 WAYS TO PREORDER THIS BOOK:

3) From @bookshop.org thru this link: bit.ly/beck-heartleaf

2) Directly from @heartleafbooks.bsky.social, the author's favorite queer bookstore: heartleafbooks.com/book/9781668...

1) From YOUR OWN local indie bookstore: www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...

CAN CONFIRM!

America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction Instant USA Today Bestseller From the Bram Stoker nominated author team who penned A Haunted History of Invisible Women, the first book of its kind to investigate gothic tropes that define American lore. Here is the hidden, dark history of what frightens us - and why.The Gothic. Brooding, atmospheric, chilling, and not always the outpouring of a feverish imagination. Reality can be even stranger as borne out in this lush and ghostly look at real people who lived--and died—amidst the trappings of the Gothic.Fog clinging to an isolated mansion. A dangerous patriarch or an overbearing matron. Locked doors and forbidden rooms. Whispers of murder and madness. And a woman shadowed by omnipresent threats. You’ve guessed it. You’ve stumbled into a Gothic tale, and it will haunt you like a ghost.We often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and film—breath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some of these chilly vibes are rooted in the experiences of real and tragic people who danced a macabre waltz with love and death? That’s why we’re here. Take the case of teenage Mercy Brown, victim—or was it predator?—of Rhode Island’s vampire hysteria of the 1890s. Marguerite de la Roque, a French noblewoman condemned for “sexual crimes” to Canada’s long-lost Isle of Demons. What happened to her and the barren landscape itself is the stuff of legend. And “Mad Lucy” Ludwell, the decidedly peculiar eighteenth-century high-society hauteur driven mad in the Virginia estate she prowls to this day. President Helen Peabody’s spirit still stringently watches over her Women’s College, now part of Ohio’s Miami University. Ghosts of workers lost in horrific conditions while building the Hoosac Tunnel warn of imminent danger. Settle in. There are more.Welcome to the phantom ships, haunted academic halls, menacing landscapes, and family curses of America’s Most Gothic—a tour of true spectral sightings and disordered minds. But beware: it’s sure to get under your skin. The haunted—and haunting—figures herein want it that way.

I'd dearly appreciate if folks could share the above sale alert link since Kindle Deal of the Day is today only!

BUT, if you'd rather pay a bit more & support an incredible independent bookstore, @heartleafbooks.bsky.social has had a slow 2026 & could use help: heartleafbooks.com/book/9780806...

Penny -- the in-store cat at Heartleaf Books in Providence -- atop a table of colorful books.

Stopped by @heartleafbooks.bsky.social earlier to buy some books and say hi to Ms. Penny.

I recommend both activities.

More signed copies of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC via the beloved @allshewrotebks.bsky.social & @wickedgoodbooks.bsky.social in MA, the great @heartleafbooks.bsky.social in RI, and TONIGHT, live & in-person awesome @eveninghouse.bsky.social in Buffalo, NY! TOMORROW I'll be @aadl.org in Ann Arbor, MI! 👻

Leanna Renee Hieber and Christa Carmen! A desperate woman's plot to frighten her husband out of her life takes a nightmarish turn in a chilling novel of modern horror by a Bram Stoker Award-winning author.

NEXT: 10/3 5-7:30pm Providence, RI! Join me + awesomely talented buddy @christaqua.bsky.social as we celebrate our new Gothic books! An AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC + HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING / DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND meet-&-greet at beloved @heartleafbooks.bsky.social! heartleafbooks.com/event/2025-1...

don’t forget to buy your books from @heartleafbooks.bsky.social !!!

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new books at the store!!

we haven’t met our 100 book sales goal the past two weekends! (76 and 81 books, respectively) maybe you would like to buy a book? 📚 heartleafbooks.com/books 👀

just wanted to brag about this galley i got from tor :) it’s a manuscript!!

Watch Kian’s Bizarre B&B | Netflix Official Site On a remote island, Kian84 hosts a quirky B&B escape, where BTS' Jin and Ji Ye-eun lead guests through playful exploits and delightful chaos.

this show was really cute and weird ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ highly recommend for a heartwarming watch with seemingly no stakes www.netflix.com/us/title/819...

just a reminder that indie bookstore day is this weekend! please try to resist the amazon and bn sales for a few days!!!!📚📚📚

has anyone read sky daddy by kate folk I really wanna talk about sky daddy by kate folk

I need someone to photoshop pope francis and donny meeting at the pearly gates!! i don’t have time today!!

Cat, books, gay stuff and (book) lesbians for you!

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wow they’re perfect

hey Providence!! which bookstores are on your Indie Bookstore Day visit list? #IBD25

dear algorithm, please send me cats, books, martha stewart, memes, more books, gay stuff, lesbians

The Time is NOW to Tax the 1% - Raise $190M in Revenue for Rhode Islanders TO: The Members of the Rhode Island General Assembly FROM: Concerned Rhode Islanders, Community Organizations, Businesses, City and Town Governing Boards The Revenue for Rhode Islanders Coalition and...

Things Rhode Islanders Can do Today 4/15:

1. Sign the petition to tax the top 1% - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2. Share the petition on social media:  #TaxtheRichRI 
3. Tag State Level politicians

haters they don’t really like PENNY
cause they could never ever be
P E N N Y ✨

Indie Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 26!! 📚 check out some of the exclusives and freebies we’ll have it store on the big day 🎉👯👯‍♀️👯‍♂️

any small irish towns want to adopt a co-op bookstore? 🥺 freaking out frfr

babe wake up it’s time to go to heartleaf and buy a book from Penny 📚💜🐈‍⬛ we’re currently at 50 books exactly toward our 100 book goal!! see you soon! or online at heartleafbooks.com

lmaoooo phoebe

This not a St Patrick’s Day cover of HORROR MOVIE but a signed (and yes green!) exclusive edition that will only be available at your favorite indie stores. Coming on Independent Bookstore Day 4/26/25

I BRAKE FOR GHOSTS 👻

I'm smiling widely as I lean in next to Penny, an adorable gray kitty, whose face remains stoic and unimpressed. She is sitting on a table of books at Heartleaf Books in Providence, R.I.

I got to see one of my favorite cats today: Penny, the Store Cat at @heartleafbooks.bsky.social, on Federal Hill in Providence.

She seemed unimpressed, but I didn't take it personally.

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